Mike Johnson

I mean, teams have no problem asking guys with no moves to get traded.

Nobody has a problem with that being a problem for the league.

So if a guy who's under contract says, I don't like it here, move me somewhere else.

I don't have a problem with that.

And

Motion and activity in the league is good.

It's interesting.

Changes the dynamic.

I think one of the challenges of the last seven years in the NHL with the flat cap, COVID, all that stuff, is the league was very stagnant.

And the conservative nature of hockey players.

They don't like to change.

They don't like to bet on themselves and go short term and do what Conor just did or what Austin just did.

That's changing, and I don't think that's a bad thing at all.

That opens up more possibilities and keeps Jeff's favorite management groups accountable.

They don't have eight years.

They might have an eight-year contract, but they might have two years before he says, this is not working for me.

I want something different.

Like, go ahead.

If the teams could win because a great player played, Conor won the Conn Smythe.

His team didn't win.